Reservoir Engineer

Determine the best way to develope fields using traditional engineering technics or simulation.

2006 – Present SIPEC (National Company of Chile) Quito/Ecuador
Responsible of:
- Simulation to obtain the forecast and to plan the new wells to be drilled
- Production analysis to determine opportunities to increment production
- Pressure transient planning and analysis to adjust the simulation and determine the well potential
- Decline curves analysis to obtain the forecast in fields without static-dynamic model
- Reserves certification
- Reports to Ecuadorian government and SIPEC managers

Coordinate and review:
- Construction of static models
- Logging acquisition and interpretation
- Core subtraction and analysis

Participation in:
- Workover & drilling planning
- Evaluation of new business including risk analysis

Goals obtained:
- Reserves increment of 25.4 MMBO
- Production increasing in 4000 bopd because of new wells drilled
- Production increasing in 2000 bopd because of workovers
- Reservoir Manager in charge 6 months
- Promotion to senior reservoir engineer

2003 – 2006 Petrobras (National Company of Brazil) Quito/Ecuador
Responsible of:
- Simulation to obtain the forecast and to plan the wells to be drilled
- Pressure transient planning and analysis
- Production analysis
- Log interpretation
- Risk analysis for new projects
- Reserves certification

Participation in:
- Strategy planning

Goals obtained:
- Production increment of 27000 bopd because of new wells drilled
- Reserves increment of 60 MMBO because of reservoir, geology and simulation studies
- Introduction of risk analysis
- Promotion to semi-senior reservoir engineer

2001 - 2003 Perez Companc (Argentinean Company) Rincon de los Sauces/Argentina
Responsible of:
- Workover planning for injection and production maintenance
- Logging supervision of open and cased hole
- Production forecast for proved reserves
- Waterflooding management
- Pressure analysis of injectors and producers

Goals obtained:
- Management of Avile formation
- Promotion to junior reservoir engineer

1999 - 2000 Repsol YPF Block 16/Ecuadorian Jungle
Responsible of:
- Water disposal injection system analysis
- Injection history analysis
- Improvements to the water disposal injection system

Thesis: Water disposal analysis of Block 16

1997 - 1999 Petroecuador – National Company of Ecuador Ecuadorian Jungle
Technical visits to the Ecuadorian fields

2000 Escuela Politecnica Nacional Ecuador-Pichincha-Quito
Bachelor's Degree
Petroleum Engineering Best Graduate

1994 San Gabriel Particular High School Ecuador-Pichincha-Quito
High School or equivalent

Courses:
- Seminary of Secondary and Tertiary Recovery of Petroleum, Collins & Ware, Inc. - Schumberger, Quito, 1997.
- Drilling, Completion, Workover, Production, Artificial Lifting Systems and Reservoir Engineering, Petroecuador, Quito, 1999.
- Electro Submersible Pump System, Baker Huges, Mendoza-Argentina, 2001.
- Saphir Software Applications to Pressure Testing Design and Interpretation, Pecom, Neuquen-Argentina, 2002.
- Production History Analysis for Reservoir Characterization, AAPG Online Course, 2003.
- Introduction to Seismic Modeling, AAPG Online Course, 2003.
- Eclipse Office, Near Wellbore Modeling, Planopt, Schlumberger GeoQuest, Quito, 2003.
- Numeric Simulation of Reservoirs, Petrobras Energia, Neuquen-Argentina, 2003.
- Operation and Interpretation of Well Data with Phoenix Sensor and ESPWatcher System, Schlumberger, Coca, 2003.
- Reservoir Characterization: From the Laboratory to the Field, SPE Online Course, 2003.
- Reservoir Integrated Management, Schlumberger, Quito, 2004.
- Pipesim, Schlumberger, Quito, 2005.
- Gas and oil properties: PVT studies, Inlab, Quilmes-Argentina, 2005.
- Cougar, Risk Analysis Workshop, Caracas-Venezuela, 2005.
- Risk Analysis for Development Applications, Buenos Aries-Argentina, 2005.
- Monte Carlo Simulation, SPE Online Course, 2005.
- Risk Management in Petroleum Projects, Azul, Quito-Ecuador, 2006.
- Petroleum Management, Petroskills, Houston-USA, 2006.